Top Links
- Top .NET Videos & Live Streams of 2025 (Jon Galloway)
- What’s New with APIs in .NET 10: Taking a Look at Real Improvements (Dave Brock)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Loris Cro on the Rise of Zig (Scott Hanselman)
- Changing Immutable Collections (Jon Skeet)
- Welcome to the Public Domain in 2026 (Sterling Dudley)
- .NET Rocks! – Energy Geek Out 2025 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Web and Cloud Development
- Bun Introduces Built-in Database Clients and Zero-Config Frontend Development (Daniel Curtis)
- Aurelia 1 to Aurelia 2 Migration Roadmap (Dwayne Charrington)
- Vue vs Svelte: Top Differences (Kevin Walker)
- FracturedJson – A family of utilities that format JSON data in a way that’s easy for humans to read but compact (J. Brooke)
- What’s !important #2: Conditional View Transitions, CSS/SVG Text Effects, the Best of CSS Bluesky, and More (Daniel Schwarz)
- API Platform Unkey Ditches Serverless After Performance Struggles (Matt Saunders)
- Deploying AI Applications to Azure Web Apps: A Practical Architecture Guide (Gregor Suttie)
- What’s new in Svelte: January 2026 (Dani Sandoval)
Windows Development
.NET and Visual Studio
- How to generate Code Coverage for a .NET Solution (David Guida)
- The 10 Most Interesting C# Bugs We Found in Open Source in 2025 (akiradoko666)
- Rock Your Code: Code & App Performance for Microsoft .NET (5th Edition) and Visual Studio 2026: Regressions, Reliability Issues, and Missed Opportunities (David McCarter)
- The Complete Guide to C# .NET Input Controls (Greg Lutz)
AI
- Beyond Fine-Tuning: Architecting the Self-Evolving Agent (Imran Siddique)
- The real AI risk isn’t job loss — it’s epistemic (James D. Randall)
- Build Your First MCP Server in 15 Minutes (Complete Code) (Paolo Perrone)
- Inside Microsoft’s Plan to Embed AI Agents Deep Into Windows (Aminu Abdullahi)
- Can one state save us from AI disaster? Inside California’s new legislative crackdown (Webb Wright)
- The AI balancing act your company can’t afford to fumble in 2026 (Joe McKendrick)
- SAFE-MCP, a Community-Built Framework for AI Agent Security (Arjun Subedi)
- Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis (Steve Jones)
- Using AI to Create Secure MySQL Password Rotation Scripts (Without Exposing Secrets) (Peter Kellner)
- What Are the Best ChatGPT Prompts for Marketing? (Mahesh Chand)
- Codex cloud is now called Codex web (Simon Willison)
Python
- Functions and Modules in Python: Writing Clean, Reusable Code the Right Way (Nomidl Official)
- Python Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (Michael Kennedy)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Kubernetes 1.35: Enhanced Debugging with Versioned z-pages APIs (Richa Banker & Han Kang)
- Can OpenTelemetry Save Observability in 2026? (B. Cameron Gain)
- Don’t be so eager to rewrite your code (Daniel Lemire)
- A Box of Many Inputs (Allen Pike)
Screencasts and Videos
- Live Coding – Oh My Posh – Visual Configurator! Hello 2026! Let’s Go! and Revolutionize Your Workflow with Cloud Coding Agents: A Comprehensive Guide (James Montemagno)
- Is AGI Coming In 2026? (Frank La Vigne)
- LEDs, Tabs, an Open Source Fun! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- 50 AI Predictions for 2026 Part 2 (AIDailyBrief)
Dometrain Course
From Zero to Hero: Reflection in .NET: Master the art of Reflection in .NET using C# and make the impossible, possible (Nick Cosentino) – Referral Link
Podcasts
- Making Scrum Master Success Visible with OKRs That Actually Work | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Steve Martin)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The Goth letters: why the alphabet goes off the rails after T, with Danny Bate (Mignon Fogarty)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #967 – What’s Going to Happen in Web Dev During 2026 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- AI & I Podcast – Four Predictions for How AI Will Change Software in 2026 (Rhea Purohit)
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #18 – The Public Domain (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
Community and Events
- 2025 Year In Review, The Community- Part 2 (Kellyn Gorman)
- Waking Up to Find Out You Are the Eyes of the World (Kin Lane)
- Top 26 Healthcare & Technology Leadership Events to Attend in 2026 (Paul J. Swider)
- My Open Software (Ash Vardanian)
Database
- Azure SQL Database High Availability: Architecture, Design, and Built‑in Resilience (Mohamed Baioumy)
- What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like? (Marc Brooker)
- Performance regressions in MySQL 8.4 and 9.x with sysbench (Mark Callaghan)
- bit Obscene: When Will AI Fix The Query Store GUI? (Erik Darling)
- Performance for RocksDB 9.8 through 10.10 on 8-core and 48-core servers (Mark Callaghan)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Makes Teams ‘Secure by Default’ Starting January 2026 (Aminu Abdullahi)
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2025 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
PowerShell and Terminal
- shot-scraper 1.9 (Simon Willison)
Writing
- 31 Writing Prompts For January 2026 (Writers Write)
- Reading Report: December 2025 (Emily Munro)
Tools
- Introducing PDF Diff: Compare PDFs Privately in Your Browser (James Montemagno)
- KOReader – An open-source eBook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices (KOReader Team)
- TIL: Downloading archived Git repositories from archive.softwareheritage.org (Simon Willison)
- If ChatGPT Atlas browser lands on Windows 11, Microsoft Edge already looks ready to “intercept” it with Edge/Bing upsell (Mayank Parmar)
- Is Neovim Your Next Favorite Development Tool? (Jack Wallen)
General
- The Tech We’ve Lost in 2025 (Lori Grunin)
- 10 Tech Cleanup Tasks for New Year’s Day (Jill Duffy)
- Windows 11 Start menu nags you to use OneDrive for backup to ensure you always have access to files, apps (Mayank Parmar)
- Poor Sleep Quality Accelerates Brain Aging (msmash)
- Year in Space: Get ready for moon missions to take center stage in 2026 (Alan Boyle)
- Static Allocation For Compilers (Alex Kladov)
- By how much does your memory allocator overallocate? (Daniel Lemire)
- Enable Modern Run dialog box in Windows 11 (Kapil Arya)
- Getting DNS Right: Principles for Effective Monitoring (Denton Chikura)
More Link Collections
- 2025 year-end link clearance (Raymond Chen)
The Geek Shelf
Python Workout, Second Edition – 200 ten-minute exercises (Reuven M. Lerner)
Work through 200 carefully selected exercises that flex your programming muscles.